Metallica Scholars Summer Camp Student: Charles Craney

Charles Craney is a student at St Mary Help of Christians Catholic School, who participated in the Cyber Power Camp: Mars Rover Edition. The camp was funded by the Metallica Scholars Initiative.

Age: 13

What did you think about this camp experience?
I thought it was pretty cool because we just learned a lot about programming, and it was just the experience I've never really got to have before. …it just kind of really helped start up my experience in programming.

What do you want to do when you grow up?
Oh, I'm not really sure yet. I'm definitely interested in really anything that has to do with math. So, I mean, programming does have a lot of math-related things in it. So, anything with programming, math, engineering, pretty much in that that category. 

What would you say is the best thing you learned throughout this experience?
I can write my own games now. I think, in my opinion, what the best thing I learned and the most useful thing is that …I'm starting to just write my own things (codes). Just making like a game, my own game, without any help, which just kind of is the coolest thing to make. Yeah, it's pretty cool.